of Sesostris are probably based on the life of Senusret I, Senusret III and perhaps other Pharaohs such as Shoshenq I and Ramesses II. Sesostris' name...
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Beckerath, the temple documents of El-Lahun, the pyramid city of Sesostris/Senusret II often mention the Festival of "Going Forth to Heaven" which might...
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Uraeus (section Golden Uraeus of Senusret II)
(Thames and Hudson Ltd, London), c. 2000. See "1920, The Golden Uraeus of Sesostris II from el-Lahun", p. 157. Media related to Uraeus at Wikimedia Commons...
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Senusret I (redirect from Sesostris I)
I (Middle Egyptian: z-n-wsrt; /suʀ nij ˈwas.ɾiʔ/) also anglicized as Sesostris I and Senwosret I, was the second pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt...
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Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (section Amenemhat II)
the son of a woman from Elephantine called Nofret and a priest called Sesostris (‘The man of the Great Goddess’).",Grimal, Nicolas (1994). A History of...
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Faiyum, Egypt founded by Senusret II. El Lahun is associated with the Pyramid of Senusret II (Greek: Sesostris II), which is located near the modern...
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excavations of a workers' town near the pyramid of the Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh Sesostris II. The Kahun Papyri are a collection of texts including administrative...
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Senusret III (redirect from Sesostris III)
Khakaure Senusret III (also written as Senwosret III or the hellenised form, Sesostris III) was a pharaoh of Egypt. He ruled from 1878 BC to 1839 BC during a...
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Amenophis II and Tuthmosis IV are nothing but “pillar benedictions” being simply copies of those found on the pillars of the small bark temple of Sesostris I...
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dynasty (Milligen papyrus, Sallier II papyrus). The text was commissioned from the scribe Khety shortly after Sesostris's enthronement. Now a classic of royal...
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